Re: [SQLObject] generic _set method

[Ian B. <ia...@co...>]

pkoelle wrote:
> I am surely overlooking something simple but haven't found a way 
> override the setter and not hardcoding the columns name.
> I can do something like:
> 
> def _setName(self, value):
>   blabla
>   self._SO_set_Name(value)
> 
> but this applies to the Name column only and I have to perform the
> *same* operation for *all* columns and rather like to avoid writing the 
> same code for each column. Basically I'd like to update an ini file 
> through ConfigParser on writes, where the option (in terms of 
> ConfigParser) should be the name attribute of the column being changed. 
> I have no idea if messing with _SO_setValue() is a sane approach. 
> Moreover, there seems no way to get the name attribute of the column at 
> runtime... Any ideas?

If you want something that gets triggered on every update, then 
overriding _SO_setValue() and set() would probably make sense.  It's not 
  a stable interface, in that it might get changed in the future (but 
not for a little while at least).

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